[DEV] Remove full party bonus to increase difficulty

[Bustercucumbers]

It's not the idea itself, it's just how he put it.

I actually agree that full PT bonus should be toned down. It's a bit ridicolous that with full PT Acc bonus I never miss a single arrow on my BRD and I don't have a single acc bonus on me (in fact I'm using the songbow which reduces acc).

But if this were to be done I wouldn't ask for it to "increase difficulty", it's just a part of balancing that should always be going on, not suddenly done because someone wants the game to be harder. It's funny because if I recall PT bonus was supposed to be implemented to push people into partying to level up and get the incentives, not necessarily for endgame content where the EXP bonus does them no good.

Also stating that the game is "for casuals" doesn't really help him prove a point.

Totally agree. I honestly wouldn't mind if the party bonus left the game. The acc bonus is crazy. If it was gone, people would want bards more often, as well as, proper acc gear and food. Right now it just feels like everyone is just winging it whenever they go do an event as a group.

[Dragon]

Totally agree. I honestly wouldn't mind if the party bonus left the game. The acc bonus is crazy. If it was gone, people would want bards more often, as well as, proper acc gear and food. Right now it just feels like everyone is just winging it whenever they go do an event as a group.

OR they could buff enemy stats to counter it since the buff is here in the first place to encourage partying rather than soloing.

[Bustercucumbers]

OR they could buff enemy stats to counter it since the buff is here in the first place to encourage partying rather than soloing.

Yeah that could work too. Right now things are just so easy. If it wasn't for the sluggish servers, everyone would cruise control through this game like ffxiii-2.

[Andrien]

At first I thought it was a Rokien thread.

[Antanias]

At first I thought it was a Rokien thread.

At least it's not as bad as the Hordecore/Hordcora spam that lived in ff11's General Discussion forum.

[Masamune1004]

At first I thought it was a Rokien thread.

Me too, but I'm willing to give him a chance before labeling him a Rokien like everyone else has.

[Dragon]

Anyways, like I originally alluded to... why not discuss other means to counteract the PT bonus so that it's actually 'required' (in a manner of speaking)? The point of the PT bonus has always been to encourage EXP Partying, so removing it ends an incredibly important incentive in the game.

[Xeonerable]

Full party bonus removed!

Game difficulty increased by 0.0001%

[Jynx]

Looks like people are sad that Rokiens last thread got locked and they can't troll him in it anymore so they jump on this poor fellow instead.

To be serious on the subject, I don't think it's a huge enough difference either way to make a big deal it's a slight incentive to get people in parties put in the game when people avoided parties like the plague. It doesn't serve much purpose to me other than allerting me that I'm in a full party of 8 before my eyes can scroll down to the party list.

[Rokien]

I like the bonus but I don't. I think they could turn the bonus into something else, idk, but I want ACC to play a bigger roll.
Maybe make food last longer? idk.....


I also still want to say "FULL PARTY" whenever I get into a full party, if they keep that I'll be happy.